Ohio farms,I hope your home isn't too conveniently close to Columbus. That could get expensive. Cabela's has always had good gear, but it's easy to spend a bunch there. I'm 93 miles from the Hammond IN store. That's close enough to get there, but far enough that I don't do it too regularly.

I just mapquested it, and I'm only like 67 miles from the Hammond store. I agree with you Kell; the last time I was there I saw a lot of things I really would have liked to buy, but the prices are just a bit high.

"When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God." ~Fred Bear

Ohio farms,Patience is needed also. As I write this, I'm wearing a Cabela's world traveler shirt. I liked them the first time I saw them but I thought $39.99 was a touch high. I later found them in the "Bargain Cave" for $24.00. Still more than I wanted to pay. Around Labor Day, the Hammond store has their big sale. I found the same shirts on clearance for $4.88 each. I bought 6 of 'em. Now they're back priced at $39.99. I also buy a lot of stuff during their online sales and I use my credit card points instead of cash.

Those are nice shirts. Rats, wish I would have seen them. I've been looking through Cabela's catalogs for many years. When I finally went to one of their stores, I swear I had to wipe away the tears. To be able to actually hold those items in my trembling hands was a thrill. I pilled multiple items into my cart, but thankfully at the end I put most of them back before checking out. They have all the great man toys.

"Any sportsman who can kill his deer without the tingling spine, the quick clutch at his heart, the delicious trembling of nerve fibers when the game is finally down, has no place in the deer woods." Lawrence R. Koller. (1948).